Speaker Bio

Alex Wright

Alex Wright is a writer and information architect who has led projects for IBM, Harvard University, The Long Now Foundation, Internet Archive, Yahoo!, Rollyo and Sun Microsystems, among others. His forthcoming book about the history of the information age will be published in June 2007 by the National Academies Press. Alex’s work has appeared in Salon.com, The Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, The Believer, Harvard Magazine, Boston Business, Utne Reader, New Architect, Yankee and Library Journal, among others. He has presented at three previous IA Summits (in 2001, 2003 and 2006), and at numerous other industry conferences and events.

He holds a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College. He has also completed graduate coursework in journalism at Harvard and in usability engineering at UC-Berkeley. He writes regularly at http://www.alexwright.org/